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Commute

To exchange to put or substitute something else in place of as a smaller penalty obligation or payment for a greater or a single thing for an aggregate hence to lessen to diminish as to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life to commute tithes to commute charges for fares...

Commutation

Commutation, conversion; the change of a penalty or punishment from a greater to a less; or giving one thing in satisfaction of another-as commuting tithes into a rent-charge, copyhold services into money payments, etc., annual payments into one lump payment, as under the (English) Pensions Commutation Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 36)....

Commutative justice and distributive justice

Commutative justice and distributive justice, Aristotle's doctrine of justice of equality is called by him commutative justice which requires at least two persons while distributive justice requires at least three. Relative equality in treating different persons while grating relief according to need, or reward and punishment according to merit and guilt is the essence of distributive justice. While in commutative justice the two persons confront each other as co-equals, there or more persons are necessary in distributive justice in which one, who imposes burdens upon or grants advantages to the others, is superior to them. 'Therefore, it presupposes an act of distributive justice which has granted to those concerned, equality to rights, equal capacity to act, equal status.' [The Legal Philosophies of Lask, Radbruch and Dabin, p. 74] According to Radbruch, 'distributive justice is the prototype of justice. In it we have found the idea of justice, toward which the concept of law must be...

Commutation ticket

A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance as increase of travel specif a ticket for a certain number of or for daily trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb 4 1887 24 Stat 379 and in 145 U S 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being ldquoobviously within the commuting principlerdquo...

Commuter

One who commutes especially one who commutes in traveling...

commutative contract

commutative contract see contract ...

commute

commute com·mut·ed com·mut·ing 1 : to convert (as a payment) into another form 2 : to change (a penalty) to one less severe esp. out of clemency compare pardon com·mu·ta·tion [kÄ -myə-tā-shən] n com·mu·ta·tive [kə-myü-tə-tiv, kÄ -myə-tā-tiv] adj ...

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